A Simple and Robust Intelligent Environment Monitoring System for Special Purpose Medical Laboratories |
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| Alina Taina |
- Abstract:
- Controlling the environment is a critical component of quality assurance in laboratories. That is because in many cases the environmental condition can severely alter the quality of results. In other cases, having complex systems operating in a non-compliant environment can lead to malfunctions or decreased life-span of those systems. This is exactly the case of large medical or molecular biology or laboratories. Typically, most available commercial solutions are comprised of a set of sensors and a system logic which decides to override and reprogram the maintenance systems to return to desired conditions. This article introduces a simple and robust intelligent system with a feedback loop for monitoring and alerting in the scenario the environment parameters get out of range. Besides continuous display, visual and sound alerts, the system is equipped with the possibility of sending SMS-notifications to a given set of phone numbers (remotely located human administrators) with delivery of current environmental out of range parameter values. Threshold values can be easily redefined since the system has a separate initialized file containing all the configurable parameters and scenarios.
- Keywords:
- quality assurance, microcontroller, uncertainty estimation, SMS, environment control, medical laboratory
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC4-2017-023.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC4
- Event name:
- TC4 Symposium 2017
- Title:
22nd IMEKO TC4 Symposium and 20th International Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing
"Supporting world development through electric&electronic measurements"- Place:
- Iasi, ROMANIA
- Time:
- 14 September 2017 - 15 September 2017